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Meditation on an envelope (LentBlog24)

Anne Lamott suggests an index card, and I have used these, but they suggest something pre-planned, organised. The envelope, especially…

Anne Lamott, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Envelope, Index Cards, Notebooks, Stationery, The stationery thing, Writing Process

Climate change grief: some resources (LentBlog23)

A week and a half ago I wrote here about my ‘climate change conversion’, not from unbelief to belief, but…

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Climate Change, Climate Change Anxiety, Climate Change Grief, Green New Deal, Mary Annaïse Heglar, Samuel Miller-McDonald

Meditation on a line by Joli Jensen (LentBlog21)

It isn’t often that you read something that you know as soon as you read it has the capacity to…

Academic Writing, Anne Lamott, Being a Writer, Creativity, Joli Jensen, Julia Cameron, Life Lessons, Natalie Goldberg, Writing, Writing Practice, Writing Process

Meditation on a line by Sherwood Anderson (LentBlog20)

‘I’m trying again. A man has to begin over and over – to try to think and feel only in…

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, G P Lainsbury, In a Marine Light, mindfulness, Notebooks, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Raymond Carver, Sherwood Anderson

Doing a Likely Lads (LentBlog19)

Lying awake last night wondering what had become of Theresa May’s deal in Parliament it suddenly occurred to me that…

Brexit, Likely Lads, mindfulness, politics, Presence, Raymond Carver, Shawna Lemay, Social Media, The Blue Nile, Theresa May

A week off (LentBlog18)

I’m hoping that by the end of the week we may be nearer to a political solution to the national…

Brexit, Creativity, Life Lessons, mindfulness, People’s Vote March, politics, Presence, Silence, Solitude

#PutItToThePeopleMarch (LentBlogs17)

I saw: old hippies, new hippies, punks, preppies, grandmothers, babes in arms, parents, wrinklies, men in tweeds, trombonists, anarchists, Star…

Brexit, People’s Vote, People’s Vote March, politics, Second Referendum

Meditation on a line by Rebecca Goss (LentBlog15)

Towards the end of her Greenbelt Festival poetry reading Q and A with Sasha Dugdale in 2017, Rebecca Goss said…

Being a Poet, Being Creative, Climate Change, Creativity, Facebook, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Rebecca Goss, Sasha Dugdale, Social Media

The dividend (LentBlog14)

Having left FB a week or two ago and quickly decided before I could persuade myself to do otherwise to…

Being Creative, Blogging, Facebook, Instagram, mindfulness, Silence, Social Media, Solitude, Twitter, Writing

My climate change conversion (LentBlog13)

There I was, a normal Saturday, coffee and The Guardian, propped up in bed with the old iPad, flicking through…

Activism, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Climate Change, Climate Strikes, Extinction Rebellion, Gandhi, Green New Deal, Greta Thurnberg, Martin Luther King, Pope Francis

Why I can’t vote Labour at the next election (LentBlog12)

I never wanted to have to say this. I never imagined I would. But I have finally lost the plot…

anti-Semitism, Ben Bradshaw, Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour, Life Lessons, People’s Vote, politics

Staying in touch with my failure rate (LentBlog11)

I always think of myself as working at a rock face. Ninety days out of ninety five, it’s just a…

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Eavan Boland, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Samuel Beckett, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

The new notebook (LentBlog9)

After Charles Wright Strives for perfection-Thursday Is begun day         after     votings Old envelope from the hospital) Will…

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Notebooks, Stationery, Trusting in the Process, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

The blogs I don’t read (LentBlog8)

When I began blogging almost ten years ago, I felt as though I had been let into the shiny, sugar-scented…

Being a Blogger, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Blogging, Life Lessons, Logging Off, mindfulness, Poetry Blogging, Presence

Portrait (LentBlog7)

I am half way down the path with a recycling bin, a podcast playing on my phone in my pocket,…

Being Creative, Brexit, Creativity, Flash Fiction, Instagram, Life Lessons, Presence, Social Media

A couple (LentBlog6)

We have all seen them. (Except maybe we do not see them. Maybe what they are doing is so normal…

Addiction, Internet addiction, Life Lessons, mindfulness, Mobile Phone Addiction, Presence, Relationships, Social Media Addiction, W. H. Auden

Old (LentBlog5)

That isn’t me in the photo, though it could be. A bald man in vaguely sportif clothing trying to take an…

Ageing, Creativity, Dead Poets Society, Education, Harry Potter, Joni Mitchell, Life Lessons, Robin Williams, Teachers, Teaching

Interiority (LentBlog3)

‘You good?’ says the book. ‘Yup,’ I say. ‘Good, thanks. All good.’ ‘You’re good. So you’re good,’ the book says.…

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Facebook, Leaving Facebook, Life Lessons, Pablo Neruda, The Book, Truly Madly Deeply

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